Remodeling & Handyman Services in Willow Glen, CA

Willow Glen is a San Jose neighborhood rather than its own city, but everyone here searches for it by name — and the work genuinely is different. The housing is largely 1920s to 1940s: Craftsman bungalows, Spanish revivals and Tudors on narrow lots along and around Lincoln Avenue, most with detached garages and mature street trees.

Homes of that age come with their own list. Walls are lath and plaster rather than drywall, so a patch that is not keyed and floated properly reads as a bump forever. Original kitchens and bathrooms are small, and opening them up usually means dealing with a bearing wall rather than a partition. Floors are often original hardwood worth saving under whatever was laid over them in the seventies.

We work to keep what makes these houses worth living in — the trim profiles, the arches, the built-ins — while making the kitchen, bath and systems behave like this century. Free written estimate, and we will tell you honestly which original details are worth restoring and which are past it.